Microsoft settlement attempts fall short in Europe
WinInfo | at | by Mike
The European Union (EU) has rejected a Microsoft offer to settle its European antitrust case. Under terms of the proposal, Microsoft would have supplied competitors' media player products on a CD-ROM that PC makers could have shipped with new PCs, potentially opening up those products to a much wider range of consumers. Microsoft hoped the action would alleviate concerns that the software giant was abusing its monopoly power by bundling Windows Media Player with Windows. But the EU felt that the CD-ROMs would do little to improve usage of competing media players because few people would...